The Asahin Shimbun | 23 October 2018 Cleaners, nursing care, restaurant and hotel staff are among foreign workers to be invited to Japan under plans to expand immigration to address the acute labor shortage. The government is considering taking in workers in 14 industries under a proposed “specified skill” category in a new residence status […]
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The Star Vancouver | 23 October 2018 VANCOUVER—B. C. Minister of Labour Harry Bains tabled Tuesday the Temporary Foreign Worker Protection Act in the B.C. legislature, which he says will fulfil the government’s promise to create a registry of employers and recruitment agencies active in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. If the act receives royal
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Channel News Asia | 21 October 2018 SINGAPORE: In early October this year, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower (MOM) charged a local employment agency, with “insensitive advertising” of foreign domestic workers (FDW). The agency was found to have placed advertisements on the online marketplace Carousell which is typically used to buy and sell new and second-hand
Asian regional report based on the baseline survey and research done by the Migrant Forum in Asia and research partners in 11 countries in Asia This is a pioneering Asian regional study on the recruitment situation, issues, and problems experienced by migrant workers in major countries of origin and destination, based on the perspective of
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The Nation | 23 October 2018 A new multiyear study reveals that the United States’ so-called “guestworker” system has become a complex transnational web of fraud that looks legal on paper but turns out to be brutal in practice. The H2A and H2B labor-visa programs, which in theory at least offer a legal pathway to
Gulf Business | 22 October 2018 Saudi unemployment remained steady in the second quarter after increasing in the first three months of the year as foreign workers continued to leave the country. General Authority for Statistics figures showed the unemployment rate among citizens at 12.9 cent as unemployment among women rose from 30.9 per cent
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Japan Times | 2 November 2018 The Cabinet approved a bill Friday that would overhaul the nation’s immigration control law by introducing new visa categories for foreign workers, in an attempt to address the graying population and shrinking workforce. “Creating a new residence status to accept foreign workers is of utmost importance as the nation’s
Scroll.In | 22 October 2018 The government says that the decline in emigrants is because of a slowdown in the Gulf economy related to falling oil prices. But recruitment agents channelling workers to Gulf countries and prospective employees pin the blame elsewhere – on a digitisation initiative by the Union government that was meant to
Daily Express Malaysia |22 October 2018 There is a need to review the RM250,000 security deposit set for private employment agency licence under the Category C as stipulated in the Private Employment Agency Act 1981 (Amended 2017). Sabah Foreign Workers Employment Agency Association (Pappas) President Anthony Leong said majority of the private employment agencies in
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New Age Bangladesh | 21 October 2018 Hundreds of Bangladeshi workers who became undocumented in United Arab Emirates are availing amnesty offered by it since August 1. UAE’s amnesty ends on October 31. Migrant rights activist and Awaj Foundation director for migration Anisur Rahman Khan said that Bangladeshi workers recruited by Bangladeshi and Pakistani employers
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